[mythtv-users] HOWTO: Xebian and Mythfrontend on xbox

[Phill Edwards]

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:13:21PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > 1) What do I need to do to ensure than an X is running when I boot up?
> Make sure one of the 'dm's is installed.  I use gdm, since that's got
> nice and easy configuration.
>
> > 2) And, what do I need to do to get my mythtv user's .xinitrc
> > automatically run on boot up?
> Tell gdm to login the mythtv user automatically.
>
> Personally I use a timed login (so that if it crashes and goes back to
> the login screen, it'll autologin again), and you need to add the
> following section to your /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf:
>
> [daemon]
> TimedLoginEnable=true
> TimedLoginDelay=5
> TimedLogin=mythtv

Thanks for that. Unfortunately I can't even get X up and running. I
got this in /var/log/Xorg.log.0:

Failed to load module "nvxbox" (module does not exist, 0)
No drivers available

So then I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and tried a different
driver. Unfortunately now when Xebian boots I get a blank screen which
won't respond to the keyboard and which I can't SSH into so I'm at a
loss how I can proceed from here :( I think I may have picked a
refresh rate that it doesn't like but Im just guessing here.

The machine's booting into run level 2 so I think it's GDM kicking in
which is causing the problem. Is there any way I can boot it up and
stop it starting GDM? On Fedora Core I think you can intervene and
stop certain services starting but it doesn't look like Xebian does
that. Does this mean that I'mk going to have to rebuild the whole damn
thing again from scratch?

If it does, is anybody able to advise what settings I should use for
X, especially wrt the video driver and what display resolution and
refresh rate to use for a pretty standard 10 year old Panasonic CRT
TV?

Regards,
Phill